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The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

—Albert Camus

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Chief Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, and his people, believed he was immortal, and he, and they, were right every day of his life except one.

—Richard Paul Haight

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Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear.

—Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

—Benjamin Franklin

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The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

—Elmer Davis

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The practice of terror serves the true believer not only to cow and crush his opponents but also to invigorate and intensify his own faith.

—Eric Hoffer

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Death doesn't take the time to knock on the door.

—Yiddish folk saying

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There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen.

—Carlos Fuentes

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The absence of the dead . . . is their way of appearing.

—Simone Weil

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Time to plant tears, says the Almanac.

—Elizabeth Bishop

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The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat.

—Claudia Gray in Evernight

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I am in love. For the first time in my life, utterly and completely, I have fallen in love, and I can not believe it myself.

—Philippa Gregory in The Boleyn Inheritance

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What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

—Isaac Marion in Warm Bodies

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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

—Bobby Knight

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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

—J. M. Barrie

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